KellyDeli campaign saves 30 tonnes of food waste
KellyDeli, the owner of sushi counter franchise Sushi Daily, has saved 30 tonnes of food waste and more than 76 tonnes of CO2 during the last year with its product Forgotten Ends.
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Spar partners with Gander to fight food waste
Spar International aims to further tackle food waste through scaling up its successful collaboration with digital platform Gander. The partnership initially launched in Northern Ireland and has grown to become a global collaboration.
Budgens teams up with Too Good To Go to fight food waste
100 Budgens stores have teamed up with the world’s largest surplus food app, Too Good To Go, to fight food waste.
Supermarkets can help consumers reduce food waste with new ‘freshness timer’
Insignia Technologies is helping UK supermarkets encourage consumers to reduce food waste with the launch of its new automatic ‘After Opening Timer’ which provides a clear visual indicator as to how long a packet of food has been opened for.
Waitrose boosts efforts to help customers tackle food waste
Waitrose is boosting its efforts to help customers tackle food waste at home and in its supply chain and on farm through a number of initiatives.
Combatting food waste is vital for communities and climate – we must step up to the plate
One third of all food produced in the world is never eaten, and the amount of food wasted globally could provide more than enough to feed every undernourished person on the planet.[1] Not only is this a major moral concern
Cranswick eclipses international food waste reduction target, achieving 61% reduction more than a decade earlier than planned
Cranswick plc. has surpassed the Champions 12.3 Target set in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which seeks to halve food waste and loss by 2030; instead achieving a 61% reduction in edible food waste across the business in under
UK named ‘exemplar’ as Food Waste Reduction Roadmap membership passes 210
The annual progress report for the UK’s Food Waste Reduction Roadmap, published today by WRAP and IGD, shows growing adoption of the Target-Measure-Act approach to food waste prevention with more than 70 new organisations committing to the Roadmap in the
Lidl GB and Love Food Hate Waste Scotland team up to tackle food waste as stats show 1.8m Scots shop without a list
Lidl GB unveils initiative to prevent household food waste as stats show over 1.8 million Scots are shopping without a list, contributing to a sobering 60 million meals being wasted every month.
WRAP publishes new guidance on Best Before dates
WRAP today publishes new guidance underlining the fact that food past its Best Before date remains safe, and perfectly good to eat for days, weeks, months or even years after the date – depending on the type of food and if it
Food Waste Reduction Roadmap expands focus to farms
New guidance expanding the reach of the UK’s Food Waste Reduction Roadmap is published today, providing growers with advice on how best to measure food surplus and waste on farm to identify the causes; and help inform where action is
AF Blakemore takes steps to reducing food waste
AF Blakemore is the latest convenience store retailer to trial the food waste fighting app, Too Good to Go.
High-street chains and retailers including LEON, Neal’s Yard Remedies, Waitrose and Morrisons join innovative pilot to tackle single-use plastic
Plastic pollution campaigning organisation, City to Sea has announced the launch of an ambitious pilot with retailers, independents and high-street chains including LEON, Neal’s Yard Remedies, Pret, Morrisons, ASDA and Waitrose to champion refillable solutions in a bid to cut
Winnow raises a combined $20m to lead the global fight against food waste
Winnow, the technology company behind Winnow Vision, the artificial intelligence tool helping chefs cut food waste in half, is announcing the completion of its series B round of funding at a total of $12m. This follows a recent $8m loan
Expedition to world’s most polluted beach battles adverse conditions to bag six tonnes of waste
James Beard of Valpak, which sponsored an Explorers Club Flag Expedition that bagged six tonnes of waste from the most densely-polluted beach in the world, has concluded that prevention is the only viable option to halt the tide of marine
WRAP: food surplus & waste in primary production costs UK more than £1 billion
New insights into the scale of surplus and food waste on UK farms will help drive forward work on their root causes at a key stage in the supply chain, and help more food reach its intended market. Research by
“Too Good to Waste” fruit and veg boxes rolled out across all Lidl UK stores
Lidl has announced that it is rolling out its ‘Too Good To Waste’ fruit and vegetable boxes across all of its stores in England, Scotland and Wales, following a successful, industry-first trial.
Percol launches UK’s first ‘plastic-free’ coffee packaging
UK retail coffee brand Percol today announces it is the first coffee brand to receive the official Plastic Free Trust Mark from A Plastic Planet (APP).
Smurfit Kappa continues to build on sustainability achievements with new set of goals
Smurfit Kappa has taken the next step forward in its sustainability journey by rolling out an ambitious new set of goals.
Ocean-bound plastic next step for IKEA
There is currently more than 86 million metric tons of plastic in our oceans. IKEA wants to proactively prevent ocean plastic pollution and has decided to join the NextWave initiative, with focus on making use of plastic waste before it
Macfarlane Packaging: retailers must address challenge of overpacking according to consumer survey
Almost a quarter of consumers are still opening goods ordered online that are overpacked according to a survey by Macfarlane Packaging.
Five Guys serves up fresh insights with Looker to deliver better customer experience
Looker, a leading data platform company, today announced that Five Guys JV - premium burger chain - has implemented Looker to deliver an enhanced customer experience, increase operational efficiency and drive improved sustainability across the business. Looker has opened up
IKEA UK and Ireland to remove all single-use plastic straws
The commitment applies to all UK and Ireland stores, including the recently opened IKEA Exeter store, all future IKEA outlets and IKEA online. The announcement is the first of many steps IKEA is taking towards its global commitment to remove
Borough Market calls on food industry to tackle waste
Borough Market is tackling food waste by redistributing top quality, surplus produce to 30 charities across London; providing meals for those in need. Britain’s best-known market has been working with zero food waste charity Plan Zheroes since 2014, and this
40% people unaware that we’re eating our own clothes and they’re toxic
New research1 released today by the environmental charity Hubbub reveals that 44% of the public are completely unaware that microfibres - the microscopic fibres released into our waterways when we wash our clothes - often end up in our food
